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WestMichRad

(2,573 posts)
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 10:53 AM Aug 27

Why the Christian right are preaching that empathy is a sin

Posted for you to be aware:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sin-empathy-christian-trump-vance-b2812330.html

Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice.

For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice.

“Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policies,” said Allie Beth Stuckey, author of “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.”

More at link

That’s the kind of crap we’re up against- “compassion for others is a sin.” Sick f**ers!

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Why the Christian right are preaching that empathy is a sin (Original Post) WestMichRad Aug 27 OP
This anti-empathy movement is so satanic (r) BoRaGard Aug 27 #1
We should call them the Christian Wrong. 3catwoman3 Aug 27 #2
Sounds like these right wing "Christians" would like to wash their hands of the whole helping others thing. patphil Aug 27 #3
The Unforgiveable Sin PATRICK Aug 27 #4
But Jesus loved the prostitutes and the poor and the down trodden Bernardo de La Paz Aug 27 #5
Author should look in the MIRROR /nt bucolic_frolic Aug 27 #6
How did I know 'Allie Beth' would look just like this? CurtEastPoint Aug 27 #7
She kinda has mean girl written all over her, doesn't she? mwmisses4289 Aug 27 #8
They have confused empathy with "coddling" Redleg Aug 27 #9
Good point! WestMichRad Aug 27 #10
This is what Christopher Rufo did with CRT and woke and DEI Redleg Aug 28 #12
HOG SHIT Duppers Aug 28 #11

BoRaGard

(7,321 posts)
1. This anti-empathy movement is so satanic (r)
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 10:58 AM
Aug 27

Great Freaking Deception, my ass.

repubes have completely
surrendered to the darkside - Supreme Unholy Suckers (r).

Why do republicons hate Christ?

patphil

(8,212 posts)
3. Sounds like these right wing "Christians" would like to wash their hands of the whole helping others thing.
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:00 AM
Aug 27

I don't think Jesus put a caveat on compassion.
Only those without sin are worthy of assistance?
We know what Jesus said about that.
Empathy isn't a sin, it's a virtue.

PATRICK

(12,297 posts)
4. The Unforgiveable Sin
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:19 AM
Aug 27

Explained in more than one way by Jesus of Nazareth, namely against religious clerical critics is more an observation than a revelation. You not only judge yourself but render yourself incapable of being part of the Good. Calling good evil and evil good.

Simple, cutting your own spiritual throat, enforced by practice and active opposition. This of course is worse than Jesus' contemporaries who accepted all institutional "necessary" evils to put him down. The words are clear as a sword- as are the beatitudes in their various forms. When rage and "righteousness must finally rebound on the Biblically damned.

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,992 posts)
5. But Jesus loved the prostitutes and the poor and the down trodden
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:38 AM
Aug 27

Matthew 25

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

mwmisses4289

(2,080 posts)
8. She kinda has mean girl written all over her, doesn't she?
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:01 PM
Aug 27

If Christ came back, she would run away screaming about demons and devils.

Redleg

(6,584 posts)
9. They have confused empathy with "coddling"
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:53 PM
Aug 27

and then throw empathy out with the bathwater. Empathy is more about trying to understand the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and situations of the person. It may also involve an offer of help, but not necessarily. It does not include an offer of help that would support the other person's dysfunctional behaviors or do long-term harm to that person's well-being. "I understand that you are hooked on narcotics and that you can't afford narcotics, so I would like to help you pay for them" would be an example to avoid.

WestMichRad

(2,573 posts)
10. Good point!
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 03:03 PM
Aug 27

They clearly don’t understand what empathy is, or are trying to redefine the word to demonize it as “woke”.

Redleg

(6,584 posts)
12. This is what Christopher Rufo did with CRT and woke and DEI
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:33 AM
Aug 28

And he announced his intentions on twitter before doing so.

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